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December 2025

December 24, 2025

Christmas as Critique of Complicity with Injustice

When faith is subordinated to nationalist goals, it loses its capacity to speak truth to...

December 23, 2025

Christmas As Theological Critique of Empire

The use of familiar forms of imperial birth legends and filling them with radically different...

December 22, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 3 of 3)

When it comes to those pushed to the undersides and edges of our society, this...

December 21, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 2 of 3)

The angel doesn’t appear to the ruling class, but to rural shepherds, who we’d call...

December 20, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 1 of 3)

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks...

December 09, 2022

The Love and Justice of Advent (Part 3 of 3)

This concern for some people's material needs can evolve to include people to whom expressions...

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Advent and Coming Justice (Part 2 of 3)

Change comes from the bottom up and outside in. To put it in our language...

December 2021

December 23, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 3 of 3)

We, too, can choose to listen when a woman has the courage to tell her...

December 22, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 2 of 3)

Joseph is neither centered nor given any voice at all in this story. Let's talk...

December 21, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 1 of 3)

The Christmas and childhood narratives of Jesus in the gospels are following an ancient format....

December 16, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 3)

Mary's story, like Jael’s and Judith’s, is much more scandalous. The life growing in here...

December 15, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 2)

Medieval images of Jael often depict her as a prefiguration of Mary the mother of Jesus.

December 14, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 1)

Those who heard Luke’s narrative and were familiar with the stories of the Hebrew scriptures...

December 09, 2021

Advent as Too Political (Part 3 of 3)

Social location matters. Which communities in which social locations have we chosen to speak out...

December 08, 2021

Advent as Too Political (Part 2 of 3)

A Christianity that focuses on achieving entrance into heaven without regard for injustices being committed...

December 07, 2021

Advent as Too Political (Part 1 of 3)

The concern is for justice to be practiced within society because deeds prove social repentance...

December 02, 2021

Advent, Hope, and Living on the Margins (Part 3 of 3)

Advent tells a liberation story that 2,000 years ago inspired hope in those who were...

December 01, 2021

Advent, Hope, and Living on the Margins (Part 2 of 3)

Before any social change has ever taken place, years of groundwork has been laid. Change...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

Advent, Hope, and Living on the Margins (Part 1 of 3)

The gospel message here, and one of my favorite Advent themes, is that salvation, change,...

November 26, 2021

Advent and a Different Iteration of Our World (Part 3 or 3)

The hope and belief that a new iteration of our world is possible, and that...

November 24, 2021

Advent and a Different Iteration of Our World (Part 2 or 3)

Following this model, one way of interpreting the end of violent empires and the chaos...

November 23, 2021

Advent and a Different Iteration of Our World (Part 1 or 3)

Even in the chaos of their changing world, they could perceive an opportunity to make...

January 2020

January 10, 2020

Great Joy for All People (Part 3)

Luke’s narratives about Jesus, beginning with the Christmas narratives, ultimately offer hope for those society...

December 2019

December 20, 2019

Great Joy for All People (Part 2)

"In Luke’s birth-narrative, Jesus is both the Davidic Messiah who converges with Judaism and the...

December 13, 2019

Great Joy for All People (Part 1)

Seen in their original context, Luke’s birth narratives for Jesus subvert the Roman economic, political,...

December 06, 2019

A Christmas Story for the Marginalized

“The question for those presently at the center is not whether they will include the...